Text: English. A book in which a schematic for a simple 5 transistor radio (excluded the audio amplifier) for Shortwave is published. Also a few VFO's are published to make this radio operational on... More > Shortwave. Please make the following corrections/adaptations to the text: a) page 17: the VFO signal is injected in the emitter from TS 2 b) page 25: the sentence "like the 2N2219" must be removed c) page 27: "medium power NPN transistor must be "medium power PNP transistor". All schematics are correct.< Less

Text: English. A schematic from a simple 5 transistor Shortwave receiver, usable for receiving broadcasting stations on frequencies between 2 and 10 MHz. Also 2 VFO schematics are given to make this... More > radio function properly. Though not designed for this purpose, tips are given to receive SSB and radio amateur stations with the help of a BFO (beat frequency oscillator). Please make the following textual adaptations to the text: A) page 25 the VFO signal is injected into the emitter B) page 35 remove the sentence "like the 2N2219" and C) page 43: NPN=PNP (BD 140).The schematics are all correct.< Less

This is a book aimed primarily at the beginner as an introduction to the hobby of Short Wave Radio Listening but may also contain information of interest to seasoned SWLs and new or old Radio... More > Amateurs. It contains everything from simple explanations of controls to projects for building simple radio receivers (Direct Conversion).
Nigel Booth, M0CVO has been a licenced radio amateur since 1998, first as M1DKN and then as M0CVO since 2000. His interest in radio and electronics spans back to the late 70's and now, at last, he is finding the time to share some of his vast knowledge in this book. He has previously written articles that have appeared in various radio and electronics magazines.< Less

John R. Burgoon Jr. was never one to turn down an adventure. He joined the US Navy at age seventeen and pursued a career in the aviation branch of the navy. One of his first assignments was flying... More > anti-submarine missions from Panama during World War II. Burgoon carried out his work with distinction, and his radio, radar, and electronic skills did not go unnoticed. He became an instructor—even teaching other instructors how to teach. His twenty-year career was never dull, and included a stint in Guam, where he improved upon a shortwave radio station and relayed servicemen’s calls to the United States; he also had an assignment as a legal officer in San Diego, where he never lost a case. Burgoon’s exciting off-duty life included being an amateur radio operator, a proficient chess player, an impressive hypnotist, and a certified gemologist. In between everything, his good looks managed to get him in trouble with the ladies; this memoir shares all the good stuff in It All Counts on Twenty.< Less

John R. Burgoon Jr. was never one to turn down an adventure. He joined the US Navy at age seventeen and pursued a career in the aviation branch of the navy. One of his first assignments was flying... More > anti-submarine missions from Panama during World War II.
Burgoon carried out his work with distinction, and his radio, radar, and electronic skills did not go unnoticed. He became an instructor—even teaching other instructors how to teach. His twenty-year career was never dull, and included a stint in Guam, where he improved upon a shortwave radio station and relayed servicemen’s calls to the United States; he also had an assignment as a legal officer in San Diego, where he never lost a case.
Burgoon’s exciting off-duty life included being an amateur radio operator, a proficient chess player, an impressive hypnotist, and a certified gemologist. In between everything, his good looks managed to get him in trouble with the ladies; this memoir shares all the good stuff in It All Counts on Twenty.< Less

A shortwave radio, without use of satellites, will receive commercial free foreign government supported English language radio programs from thousands of miles away! Shortwave radios can be built at... More > home in a time period of a few hours to a few weeks. This book contains over one hundred illustrations. Written for both the expert and the novice, it provides information for understanding how the radios work, for obtaining the necessary parts, and for constructing the radios. Shortwave radios were first developed in the 1930s and new designs can be built to resemble radios of that era.< Less

A shortwave radio, without use of satellites, will receive commercial free foreign government supported English language radio programs from thousands of miles away! Shortwave radios can be built at... More > home in a time period of a few hours to a few weeks. This book contains over one hundred illustrations. Written for both the expert and the novice, it provides information for understanding how the radios work, for obtaining the necessary parts, and for constructing the radios. Shortwave radios were first developed in the 1930s and new designs can be built to resemble radios of that era.< Less

This First Book of Dash! The Dog-Faced Ham is the story of Dashiell "Dash!" Hammutt, his face for radio, his taste for vacuum tubes and his dramatic struggle to get on the air. Follow a... More > young pup electronically coming of age in the 1950s and 60s -- his heroics and heartbreaks, his tense tales of shortwave and Cold War. Dash! has already made an international ham radio spectacle of himself on the web. Now 6SJ7 Comics presents his print debut, in an all-new graphic memoir created by Jeff K1NSS.< Less

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